Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high noon on May 10, 1940-the day Hitler's Panzer divisions began their drive toward France-from the cloudless sky over ancient Freiburg a thin drone insisted. The burghers were not alarmed. They glanced skyward, expecting to watch another Luftwaffe observation plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...
...submit that this is contrary to any of the recognized forms of democratic balloting. We had been led to believe that this kind of voting had been discarded once and for all by the end of the Hitler regime. How can such a procedure as this give on unbiased picture of student opinion? Marold Brine, W.B. White, Gordon Newkirk...
...died firmly believing that his wife would be released after six months in jail. But Adolf Hitler conceived a better idea for the only American surely in his power. At the Führer's personal order Mildred was beheaded. She was only 40, but weeks of torture, said a prison chaplain who saw her killed, had aged her by 20 years...
...Times: "This is the classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle the voice of a free press and to destroy the sources of trustworthy information. . . . In following in this respect the pattern endorsed by Stalin and Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, Señor Perón has embarked on a course of infinite danger to his country...
...first thing the British Ryder Cup golf team did upon reaching the U.S., was to consume ten man-sized steaks-one per man. Then, in subsequent meals, they shoveled in eggs and chops and more steak. They hadn't eaten like that since Hitler started his march through Europe. Said Commander C.R.T. Roe, the non-playing British captain: "The ham I ate for breakfast would last a month in England." They ate their way cross-country to Portland, Ore. and arrived on the playing scene as contented, and as unready for battle, as a cat with canary feathers...